My son just graduated from college and got a job at a local live music/theater venue that hosts all kinds of shows. He's the audio guy and runs the board. He mixes everything from live bands to plays to movies. For his birthday I'd like to get him a nice pair of headphones for this job. What is...

Wandered into Best Buy and they had a Monster demo area with a set of Turbine Golds and Miles Davis trumpet.  I tried both but definitely liked the Golds better.  I did have a hard time with the look of the trumpets. A week later I wandered back in and they had some of the Miles Davis Tributes...

I'm jumping into the custom monitor pond after a long wait.  I've narrowed it down to the above three companies as all three have similar products at similar prices.  Right kinda leaning towards the 1964's with the LiveWires as a close second.    I'm looking for actual experiences with these...

Well I received my FiiO7 headphone amplifier today.  I appear to be missing something though.  I bought these because my ears cannot tolerate IEMs and the larger cans I use with my mp3 player don't play my older songs, ripped from my CDs loud enough.  Newer stuff (that's so poorly recorded and...

Anyone tried these out yet?  I loved my PX100's while they lasted and I also really live behind the neck, bluetooth phones.  NC I could give or take.  So if these phones have a sound even close to the PX100's, they just might be what I'm looking for, for work.  Anyone try them yet?  Oh, I...

Hey, long time surfer here but haven't been around in a while.  I need some quick suggestions based on the following:   Look for some full sized cans up to $300   Me: 48, so NOT an audiophile.  Bad tinnitus and mid-range hearing loss from military accident.  I have loud ringing in both...

I've seen many a thread about the woes of today's highly compressed music, as well as threads about all the people who suffer from chronic tinnitus. But it wasn't until a recent thread someone posted about their new dap's SQ that a connection was made. I recently upgraded to a new dap (a...

While surfing and searching many a thread here for great albums with GREAT recordings I've found many a good suggestion. I've been thrilled most with the recommendations for great live acoustic recordings. Along with the standards I already owned like Clapton, Nirvana and Alice In Chains...

I suffer from a significant mid-range hearing loss and tinnitus. The hearing loss is from childhood, probably an illness as a baby, and the tinnitus is no doubt from a combination of too-loud music and concerts as a teen, an explosion in the military in my 20s, and playing in rock bands in my...

I'm looking for a decent set of behind-the-neck band headphones, sometimes called street phones. I've got some nice IEM's and regular headphones but sometimes for work or just running around the street HP's are nice. I had a real cheap set that worked well with my last set up. So looking...

I'm listening to 'Morph The Cat' - the whole CD, not the just the song - right now as I type. Before that I listened to 'Nightfly' and 'Kamakiriad' and all I can say is DAMN! Thanks for the heads up on this artist. Funny thing is I know Steely Dan's stuff pretty well - Aja was one of the first...

I love classical music but sometimes I love the space and purity of listening to the above instruments played and recorded solo. Can any classical enthusiasts recommend any great performances recorded in a high quality? Thanks! M.

This is a review of the Denon AH-C700 after a pink noise burn-in. Headphones are (obviously) Denon AH-C700 Source: Creative ZEN 16GB (no amp) Music: Mostly 192 bit Napster-to-go tracks Pink noise: Micheal "Bink" Knowles wav file found here - thank you Mr. Knowles! These IEMs are a week...

I need to get my daughter, who is 21, some new headphones for her Creative ZEN Micro. She prefers the around-the-back-of-the-neck type headphones sometimes referred to as sport or street phones. I'm looking to spend around a hundred bucks, less if fine, a little more is fine too. She doesn't...

Like many here, I'm a mid-40's guy who grew up on the guitar layden albums of Aerosmith, Zep, Tull etc. Also like many, I have a wide variety of music I enjoy, particularly the mellower stuff like Harry Chapin and Jim Croce. There's so much 'new' stuff out there and I'm having a ball...

I know next to nothing about this band. I found them on Napster-to-go and have been very impressed with the whole CD. I like very song.

I guess my first post was way too long as I got no responses on that one. So I'll boil it down to a few lines: Source: Creative ZEN - no amp, no plan to amp Music: Just about everything but right now mostly Rock and Alternative. I like a lot of bass, but not at the expense of the mids and...

Hello to all in Head-fi land. I've been lurking for a couple of months now. I was hoping to gain some insight in my quest to find the perfect (for me) set of IEM's for my Creative ZEN. Unfortunately all you've done is introduce so many new and wonderful choices that it's worse than before...